#warning light

[deebrisbyfish]

I continue to hold to a firmly held... and repeatedly reinforced... belief that the universe really enjoys watching me hover precisely on the line between success and failure, and delights in poking me in one direction, then the other, with regularity. It was a MAJOR bit of stress on the way home from an otherwise awesome weekend, but it's just the sort of thing that happens in my life. Heidi USED to have the attitude she has here in the strip, but in the years we've been together, she's seen this sort of thing happen WAY too often to attribute it to me just being paranoid. lol

[huariqueje]

Beacon   -   Alf Christian Hvaring , 2020

Norwegian,b.1976-

Oil on canvas , 60 x 60 cm.

[sportsandlaughs]

[silvestriste]

[iamabax]

[momentsbeforemass]

What must I do?

I ran into an article online about the warning lights on a car. It had in-depth explanations about what each of them meant. About halfway through, I figured out that the article was about the warning lights for a particular model of car. Ones that are unique to that car.

I’m sure it’s helpful, if you own that car. But it really doesn’t apply to me.

Today’s Gospel is the story of the rich young ruler. It’s the story of someone who is so close to doing it God’s way that he only needs to do one more thing to get it right.

It’s a very real problem. For a particular person.

But if I’m not a rich young ruler, then it’s easy for the story to feel like that article about warning lights for a particular model of car.

I’m sure it’s helpful, for him. But it really doesn’t apply to me.

Or does it?

Look at what Jesus is really talking about. Jesus is talking to someone who is doing so many things right. But someone who also knows that something is off.

Which is why he asks that painfully honest question, “what must I do?”

With nothing but love for him, Jesus tells him what he needs to do. Jesus tells him to get rid of what has come between him and God.

The rich young ruler is wrestling with a universal problem – things that come between us and God.

For him, it’s money. For you and me, it might be money. Or it might be something else.

This Lent, follow the rich young ruler’s lead. Ask God that painfully honest question, “what must I do?”

Listen with your heart for the answer. Then ask God for the grace to do better than the rich young ruler. For the grace to make your Lent holy.

By getting rid of whatever is coming between you and God.

Today’s Readings

[screaming-skvll]

“What’s the blinking light?”

“That means it’s on.”

“But why’s it blink? Shouldn’t it just be on if it’s on, off if it’s not?”

“You a weapons UI designer now?”

“I’m just saying it’s confusing. I would’ve thought it was a warning light.”

“Just ‘cause it’s blinking?”

“Yeah.”

“No, no. If it was a warning light, it’d have to be red or something.”

“Not necessarily. Some other Exos I know like to shift their visual spectra in different conditions, and I met an Awoken once who could see a little infrared. Either way, those people wouldn’t see a red warning light, but they could still notice a blinking one.”

“Huh. So you’re telling me it’s a warning light?”

“What? I just meant it’s unclear. You don’t actually know what it is?”

“Well, it was blinking like that when I found it, so I assumed that meant it was on. Works just fine, but maybe it is a warning light. The battery does get kinda hot after sustained fire.”

(Cartesian Coordinate w/ Veist Poison)

[basiliskfree]

This is Warning light a failure of a mad witch’s try and making an Emperor. She only had two halves of some imps and a hand full of snakes.

 Thankfully this ended up making a friendly if confused group of snakes  with the help of a crystal to focus and use what was left of an imp brain into running a mismatch body. Mostly to steal sweets (and mice) try, help those that get lost in the maze of tunnels of the clan and clean the statue that was the one that made him once everyone noticed she was a horrible person and turned her into one.